Between Us

Chapter 2: Not That Bad

Boun's P.O.V.

It's been a week since we started the workshop. The director told us that we'll only attend the acting workshop for a month and then we'll proceed to the taping.

" Ai Boun. You're sitting again here at the corner." P'Kao told me as he walked towards me. "What's up?"

"Nothing much, P'." I answered. "Just watching over the kids. You know? They're just babies."

"Watching over the babies or watching over YOUR baby?" P'Kao told me in a teasing tone.

"What are you talking about, P'?" I asked him.

"For us introverts, the way we look at someone says it all." P'Kao told me. "Have you ever noticed how you stare at Warut?"

"Stop making things up in your head, P'." I told him and laughed. "I'm worried about him because he's my partner. He's a kid that still needs to be guided and checked upon."

"But why do you look at him as if you're Dean who just found Pharm?"

"What are you trying to say, P'?" I asked him. "Yes, I already met him at the university but we never really talked. Your imagination's too wide, you could beat the writers."

P'Kao just laughed at what I said. This Uncle is nosy. He looks so calm and quiet most of the time, maybe because it's just the first week and we're still adjusting to each other. But how come he could just casually walk to me and talk to me like that about such things? Weird.

"Khun Boun, it's your turn with Nong Prem." The assistant director called me. "You will be acting the part where you'd just tease him at lunch. You guys are actually supposed to do this with Ohm and Fluke but we need to run through this part with only the two of you to also improve your chemistry."

I then walked to the center for the scene.

"Who invited you to sit with us, Hia?" Prem asked me and rolled his eyes.

He looks like a child getting mad after someone took his candy. Cute.

"I'm old enough to invite myself." I said and ruffled his hair.

It was soft.

"Stand up now because the owner of that seat is coming." I continued with my lines. He then stood up and pulled me closer to him. He smells like cotton candy. Sweet.

"I'm letting you win this once." He whispered into my ear but loud enough to be heard.

"That was really good!" The director commended us.

I then walked towards my station again and found P'New, Ohm's manager, there.

"Where are they, P'?" I asked him as the only artists I see in the studio is Prem and I.

"Oh, they went out to eat lunch." He replied. "I don't know where, though. But the 4 of them went out together since Earth wanted to eat already because he said that he didn't eat breakfast."

"Okay krup, P'." I said. "Khopkun na krup (thank you)."

"P'!" Prem shouted as he walks towards me.

"You didn't have to yell." I said. "Come on, we're eating out."

"You know it already?" Prem asked me. "They left us here, P'." He said with a sulky face.

"Cheer up." I said. "I'll be paying."

Prem's P.O.V.

"Really, P'?" I asked him.

Is he a sugar daddy or something? Why's he saying he's gonna pay for the bill?

He just nodded and went out of the studio that's why I followed him to the parking lot. I saw him standing beside the door of the passenger's seat side.